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40 Women’s Alienation meet industrial demand especially during the summer months, taking into consideration the drinking water needs of Raigarh town. In 1997, a state-level committee formed to assess the requirements of water for power and industrial projects in Madhya Pradesh granted permission to the company to build intake wells and a stop dam for consumption of 35,400 cubic metres of water per day. Over the years, the extraction of water by the Jindal Group has had severe repercussions on the local population. Almost 250 families dependent on fishing in the Kelu have lost their only source of livelihood due to the construction of a stop dam that has drastically reduced their fish catch. The company’s intake well at Bonda Tikra, from where water is drawn and supplied to the plant through a one-metre-thick pipeline, has directly affected water supply for irrigation purposes in nearby Gudgahan village. Farmers in this village had earlier mortgaged their lands for a loan to start an irrigation scheme that subsequently failed due to inadequate water; most of the water was being drawn by the steel plant. Besides using water from the river, the company has illegally diverted the Kokadi Talai irrigation canal to suit its own ends. It is also using water from the Tipakhol dam, depriving many farmers of irrigation water. Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL) proposes to build a dam for a 1,000 MW hydel power project in Rabo, a village near Kurkut in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. The dam is part of extension of the Jindal Industrial Project and will cater to the needs of power to the units of Jindal. The dam will submerge over 1000 acres of land and displace over 10,000 people. Rabo village is the nearest to the proposed dam. Apart from Rabo village, Gadgaon, Chharatangar, Dokarmuda, Dehridih, Vilaskhat, Vilaskhar, Timaudih, Gudgud, Amapali and Bachgawan villages would be affected. The protest to the dam started in August 2004 and since then there have been a series of demonstrations. On January 29, 2005, the State Pollution Control Board organised a public hearing for environmental clearance for the proposed expansion of JSPL’s existing steel plant in Patrapali, Raigarh. The hearing was conducted as a procedural formality by the local administration and District Pollution Control Board. Yet it turned out to be an historical one with almost 4,000 local people from Raigarh turning up to register their complaints and protest the expansion on the one hand, and the blatant manner in which the district administration and the Pollution Control Board violated the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF’s) guidelines on public hearings. In 1994, when site markings started, people from six villages along the banks of the Kurkut came together under the banner of the Majdoor Kisan Sangharsh Samiti to protest against the dam’s construction. They sent appeals to the district administration, water resource department, chief secretary, Chhattisgarh, Prime Minister of India, National Human Rights Commission, SC/ST Commission and the MoEF, until finally, the district administration ordered a stay on construction. The protestors also initiated direct people’s action by taking turns guarding the site and preventing further construction activity.
The state administration has arrested 12 villagers who were providing leadership to the struggle in the case of killing of two persons on 30 November, 2004. They expected to suppress the struggle by these arrests, but villagers got more united and continued their peaceful struggle. The villagers elected one of their leaders as Sarpanch while he was in jail, with a record number of votes. Villagers waited for fellow villagers to come out of jail while continuing their peaceful resistance. Victory finally came on May 1, 2005, a historic day in the history of peoples’ struggle in Chhattisgarh to protect their livelihood, land, water and environment. A gram sabha was organised in village Chaurenga on the request of the factory owner. He offered to withdraw the factory from the village. The villagers accepted. NMDC Iron and Steel Plant, Nagarnar The proposed National Mining Development Corporation (NMDC) Iron and Steel Plant at Nagarnar village is 16 kms away from Jagdalpur town towards the east. NMDC is a premier Government of India enterprise established in the year 1958 with a mission to explore and Organised Response develop all mineral resources other than those of fuel, oil and atomic minerals. NMDC is now operating two iron ore mines in Bailadila (Chhattishgarh), two in the Bellary- Hospet range (Karnataka), a diamond mine in Panna (MP), a limestone mine in Chawandia, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), a magnetite mine in Udhampur (J&K) and a silica sand mine at Lalapur, Allahabad. With the intensive research and development work on effective utilisation of waste materials coming out of mining and production of iron ore, NMDC has been able to move into hi-tech products. It has set up an ultra pure ferric oxide plant at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The other connected products are pigment grade ferric oxide, ferric oxide and ferrite powder. The total land required for establishing the steel plant at Nagarnar is 416.96 ha. from five villages of which 292.89 ha. belongs to private land and the remaining 123.97 ha. to government revenue land. The land is mostly open scrub type. It is prudent to mention that identified land is sufficient up to final stage. No additional land will be required for the plant in future except for a railway siding from 41
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Page 6 and 7: iv Study Team Balaji Pandey Jagaban
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Page 11 and 12: Introduction Government machinery u
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Page 15 and 16: Table 1: Diversion of Agricultural
Page 17 and 18: The state of Uttarakhand has become
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Page 33 and 34: of livelihood. The affected people
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Page 37 and 38: According to a survey conducted by
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Page 41 and 42: their source of livelihood - mainly
Page 43 and 44: Rs. 10,000 remained with her, thiev
Page 45 and 46: Corporation (NHPC) in 1980. The NHP
Page 47 and 48: Jharkhand now has become a hot belt
Page 49: factory owner and administration ke
Page 53 and 54: i.e. mixed population, urbanisation
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Page 57 and 58: In sum, it was a total reign of ter
Page 59 and 60: was also organised involving samiti
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Page 77 and 78: Interview: Dr Ram Dayal Munda Forme
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Process of Land Alienation Breeding
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Proposals Galore for Industries in
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Table 19: Diversions of Forests for
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Table 20: Land Grabbing in the Name
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ha. in the Garhwal zone. There are
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lots of employment opportunities fo
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Process of Land Alienation Table 22
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economic rights of Scheduled Castes
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esources in Rajasthan, having poten
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Table 23: Approved Sezs in Rajastha
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tourists and by the year 2012 an ad
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Table 25: Land to be Acquired by Ja
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Table 29: Land Acquired for Farmhou
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Process of Land Alienation Gardens
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is not only the JDA but the whole s
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will have to deposit 40 per cent of
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Summary, Conclusion and Recommendat
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state governments are promising all
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propounded and being put into pract
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y. The result is that the agricultu
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Selected Bibliography Selected Bibl
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Frontline (2007): Dark Side of Mini
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Selected Bibliography Ibid., (2004)
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Selected Bibliography Nayak, Ramesh
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Process of Land Alienation Shiva, D
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Process of Land Alienation Women an
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